"Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever ... But the appearance of a mysterious map, depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement, sends Stella--a dogged expert in American graphics and fluidomanie (don't ask)--on an all-consuming research mission. As she teases out the links between a haunting poem, several unusual novels, a counterfeiting scheme, and one of the museum's colorful early benefactors, she discovers the unbearable secret that [her missing colleague] Paul's been keeping, and charts a course out of the chaos of her own life"-- Provided by publisher.
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